Title: The Best of Cordwainer Smith Author: Cordwainer Smith File Type: Mobi Subject:Science-Fiction Description:span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; h2 style=font-size: 14px; The Ploth2p style=font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; The twelve stories in this collection, written separately and published between 1950 and 1964, fit into a consistent future history that covers human development from the Second Age of Space to the era of rights for underpeople and the Rediscovery of Man. Many of the stories involve the Instrumentality, a ruling bureau- cracy that is not always admirable but ultimately manages “to keep man man.”p style=font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; Set in the Second Age of Space, “Scanners Live in Vain” concerns the scanners, men surgically cut off from their senses in order to endure the pain of space...span

Title: Turkish Gambit Author: Boris Akunin File Type: Mobi Subject:Mystery:Historical Description: It is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The Bulgarian front resounds with the thunder of cavalry charges, the roar of artillery, and the clash of steel on steel during the world’s last great horse–and–cannon conflict. Amid the treacherous atmosphere of a nineteenth–century Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin finds his most confounding case.It’s difficulties are only compounded by the presence of Varya Suvorova, a deadly serious (and seriously beautiful) woman with revolutionary ideals who has disguised herself as a boy in order to find her respected comrade– and fiancé–Pyotr Yablokov, an army cryptographer. Even after Fandorin saves her life, Varya can hardly bear to thank such a “lackey of the throne” for his efforts.But when Yablokov is accused of espionage and faces imprisonment and execution, Varya must turn to Fandorin to find the real culprit… a mission that forces her to reconsider his courage, deductive mind, and piercing gaze.Filled with the same delicious detail, ingenious plotting, and subtle satire as The Winter Queen and Murder on the Leviathan, The Turkish Gambit confirms Boris Akunin’s status as a master of the historical thriller–and Erast Fandorin as a detective for the ages.